The Album Features 10 songs composed by Reed with arrangement contributions by the band. Lulu is titled after the classic Frank Wedekind’s femme fatale “Lulu” plays:

“Lulu was inspired by German expressionist writer Frank Wededkind’s plays “Earth Spirit” and “Pandora’s Box,” which tell a story of a young abused dancer’s life and relationships and are now collectively known as the “Lulu Plays.” Since their publication in the early 1900s, the plays have been the inspiration for a silent film (“Pandora’s Box,” 1929), an opera, and countless other creative endeavors.”

Listen: Lou Reed and Metallica – The View

The View Lyrics

I am a chorus of the voicesthat gather up the magnetsset before me

I attract you and repel youa science of the heartand blood and meaning

the coldness of most beautiesis a challenge that our youthmust quickly conquer

there is no time for guiltor second guessing, second guessingbased on feeling

I am the truth, the beautythat causes you to crossyour sacred boundaries

I have no moralssome think me cheapand someone who despisesthe normalcy of heartbreakthe purity of love

but I worship the youngand just formed angel

who sits upon the pin of lusteverything elsebores me

I want to see your suicideI want to see you give it upyour life of reasonI want you on the floorand in a coffin your soul shakingI want to have you doubtingevery meaning you’ve amassedlike a fortune

oh throw it away

for worship someonewho actively despises you

for worship someonewho actively despises you

I am the rootI am the progressi’m the aggressorI am the tabletthese ten stories

worshipworship

pain and evil have their placesitting here beside meI offer them to you as servantsof the gold that you must give

pain and evil have their placesitting here beside meand i’ll offer them, I offer them to youas servants of the goldthat you must give to me

I want to see your suicideI want to see you give it up, give it upyour your life of reason

I want to see you on the floor

and in a coffin, soul shakingsoul shakingI want to have you doubtingevery meaning you’ve amassedlike a fortune, like a fortunethrow it away